The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

- Katherine Mansfield

I advised you to dispose of your books, and advise it still. Be sure to do it, it will give you peace of mind.
But at the same time be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life.

- Vincent van Gogh

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books.

- Aravind Adiga

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

- Ezra Pound

A good book makes you want to live in the story. A great book gives you no choice

- Unknown

Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.

- Erika Johansen

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

- Stéphane Mallarmé

No book is the same twice.

- Patricia Volk

Books lie in wake for our readiness.

- Bruno Bettelheim

Literary experiences are experiences.

- William Gibson

The more you read, the more things you will know.
The more you learn, the more places you'll go.

- Dr. Seuss

Picking five favourite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose

- Neil Gaiman

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you’ve finished just to stay near it.

- Markus Zusak

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

- Jorge Luis Borges

Each book is a continent, one with varied terrain, friendly or unfriendly animals and citizens; it might take days or weeks or even years to get to know the place and its complex customs.

- Susan Olding

Where books are burned, in the end people will burn.

- Heinrich Heine

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

- Jim Rohn

Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.

- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.